Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892
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To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95